Researchers Seek Ethical Guidelines for Higher Ed Studies
Higher education needs new ethical guidelines for responsible use of online learner data, a group of faculty members, researchers and legal scholars argues. The group, which convened earlier this month...
View ArticleStudy Finds Major Inconsistencies in Journal Pricing
Most publishers keep secret the prices on journal "bundles" (packages including many journals) purchased by college and university libraries. A new study published in Proceedings of the National...
View ArticleMan Arrested After Praise of California Killer of Students
Authorities have arrested a University of Washington student who boasted online that he was the "next Elliot Rodger," referring to the man who recently killed six University of California at Santa...
View ArticleBusinessman Donates $100M to U. of Calgary for Medical Research
A businessman and alumnus has donated $100 million to the University of Calgary for medical research -- an amount that the provincial government in Alberta said it would match, The Calgary...
View ArticleConsumer Group Wants States to Clamp Down on For-Profits
The National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit group, on Wednesday released a report calling for tighter state regulation of for-profit institutions. Federal crackdowns, such as proposed "gainful...
View ArticleStudy: Web Surfing in Class Hurts Top Students Too
Conventional wisdom holds that marginal students may pay more of a price for web surfing during class than top students, who are presumed to be better multitaskers. But a study at Michigan State...
View ArticleCity Attorney of San Francisco Settles with EDMC
San Francisco's city attorney, Dennis Herrera, on Tuesday announced a $4.4 million settlement with Education Management Corporation (EDMC). Herrera's office had been investigating the...
View ArticlePensacola State Faculty Rejects Contract Over Course Loads
The Faculty Association at Pensacola State College in Florida has rejected a contract deal in part because course load and overage concerns, the Pensacola News-Journal reported. Paige Anderson, an...
View ArticleFlorida's Attorney General Ends Investigation of Kaplan
The office of Florida's attorney general, Pam Bondi, announced on Tuesday that it had concluded a three-year investigation into the recruiting and enrollment practices of Kaplan Inc., a for-profit...
View Article57% of Americans Back the Oxford Comma
Forget control of Congress and the World Cup. FiveThirtyEight, the new Nate Silver blog, is finally tackling a truly important issue, with a poll of Americans on the Oxford comma. The blog found that...
View ArticleSyracuse Fires Professor for Consensual Relationship
Syracuse University has fired a tenured male professor for a consensual relationship with a female undergraduate, The Post-Standard reported. The university did not identify the professor, but said...
View ArticleU. of Southern California, Scripps Consider Affiliation
The University of Southern California and the Scripps Research Institute are in talks about an affiliation or even an acquisition of the institute by the university, The Los Angeles Timesreported....
View ArticleDebate Over Meme About Students at Tsinghua U.
Educators and others in China are debating a popular meme in which female students at a Tsinghua University, a leading Chinese institution, post photographs of themselves before and after they...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Edible Environments
In today's Academic Minute, Nathaniel Dominy, associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, discusses his research on an evolutionary understanding of how humans and other primates eat....
View ArticleThomas Jefferson U. Receives $110M for Medical School
Thomas Jefferson University on Wednesday announced a $110 million gift for its medical college from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation. The medical college will now be named for Kimmel, a philanthropist who...
View ArticleIs Denmark Too Nice to Its Students?
Government officials and educators in Denmark are debating whether the country is too generous to its college students. Tuition is free and students receive stipends (not loans) so officials say that...
View ArticleInstructure Updates Canvas With In-Class Data Collection
Instructure on Wednesday introduced new tools for its learning management system, Canvas, to help instructors collect data from face-to-face courses. In addition to a reworked quiz statistics page and...
View ArticleU. of Wyoming Didn't Ban Pledge of Allegiance
The conservative airwaves and blogosophere were full of reports on Wednesday that the University of Wyoming had banned a veteran from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at a student government meeting....
View ArticleDuke Changes Dorm Name Honoring White Supremacist
Duke University will once again call East Residence Hall by that original name, stripping it of the name of the former North Carolina governor who had outspoken white supremacist views, President...
View ArticleNorthwestern Law Expels Felon, Who Then Sues
Northwestern University's law school this spring expelled a student -- months from graduation -- who is a felon who has been convicted for falsely impersonating a lawyer, The Chicago Tribune reported....
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